Håkon Austbø

About this artist

Håkon Austbø is a Norwegian classical pianist. He has created many recordings for the label Brilliant Classics and Naxos Records, and is also a professor at the Amsterdam conservatory.
Born in Kongsberg, Austbø studied in Paris, New York and Munich, before settling in the Netherlands in 1974.
Austbø's recordings include works by Olivier Messiaen, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Erik Satie, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Leoš Janáček, and Edvard Grieg.
Austbø was also an initiator and director of the LUCE project, which was founded to realize Scriabin's Clavier à lumières.